The Research & Innovation Office announced that Joe Dragavon, PhD, has been named interim director of Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation, effective February 1.
Joe Dragavon
Since the departure of the previous director, Claudius Mundoma, Dragavon has played an instrumental role in maintaining the momentum of the university’s core facilities community.
“We are thrilled that Joe has agreed to step into this important cross-campus role,” said Karen Regan, associate vice chancellor for research and innovation. “Our campus has made excellent progress in this area in recent years and Joe has the strategic mindset, skills and understanding of our cores to build on those advances.”
As interim director, Dragavon is focused on leading ongoing core facility-focused events, including administering the Core Facilities Assistance Grant and Voucher Programs, organizing an open house for CU Boulder cores, and developing recommendations for the operation and growth of CU Boulder’s research infrastructure.
Dragavon will continue in his current role as director of the BioFrontiers Institute’s Advanced Light Microscopy Core, where he has served as director since August 2014. He has more than ten years of imaging and light detection experience through his doctoral studies at the University of Washington and his five years of postdoctoral research within the Dynamic Imaging Platform (Plate-Forme d’Imagerie Dynamique) at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.